About this plugin
Turn plain photo collections into beautiful responsive galleries your visitors can browse in a smooth lightbox – right inside the block editor, no code required.
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🔥 NEW IN PRO: Media Highlights Story Albums — Create Facebook-style story albums that group your photos and videos into swipeable, autoplay stories with a stunning full-screen viewer!
Why Image Gallery Block?
Image Gallery Block is a lightweight Gutenberg gallery plugin that lets you create responsive image galleries, photo galleries, Polaroid galleries, portfolio galleries, and lightbox galleries directly inside the WordPress block editor. Display images in elegant grids, stylish cards, or Polaroid-style layouts, organize photos into albums, and open every image in a clean lightbox popup.
Everything adapts automatically to desktop, tablet, and mobile, and scripts only load on pages that actually use the block – so your galleries look great without slowing your site down. Titles, subtitles, dates, typography, gradients, shadows, and hover effects are all configurable from the block sidebar.
Need more? Pro unlocks advanced layouts including Masonry, Dynamic Motion, 3D Parallax, Hexagonal grids, and interactive 3D Image Sliders – perfect for photography portfolios, product showcases, and visual storytelling pages.
Free Features – Everything You Need to Get Started
- Responsive Image Gallery Block: Clean grid layouts that automatically adapt to desktop, tablet, and mobile screens.
- Reusable Galleries (Shortcode): Build a gallery once and place it anywhere—widgets, page-builder rows, or theme templates—using a simple shortcode [image_gallery id="123"].
- Ready-Made Sections: Get started instantly with four beautiful block patterns: Photo album grid, Polaroid photo wall, Portfolio showcase, and Product lookbook.
- Easy Gallery Creation: Build photo galleries and photo albums directly inside the Gutenberg editor.
- Grid & Polaroid Layouts: Choose from Classic Grid and Polaroid styles.
- Built-in Lightbox Popup: Visitors open images in a clean popup for a better viewing experience.
- Flexible Grid Controls: Adjust gallery columns (1–6) and spacing.
- Image & Content Management: Add, remove, duplicate, and edit gallery images, titles, and subtitles.
- Typography Controls: Responsive text sizing for titles and subtitles on every device.
- Custom Styling Controls: Design gallery cards with gradients, shadows, and hover effects.
- Date Display Controls: Show or hide image dates and format them with the built-in date picker.
- Bulk Import from Media Library: Select multiple photos at once and add them as gallery items or images in one step, instead of one at a time.
- Albums & Filter Bar: Group images into albums and let visitors filter the gallery with a clickable filter bar.
- Image Watermarking: Overlay a text or logo watermark on gallery and lightbox images, with position, opacity, and where it applies all configurable.
- Load More Pagination: Load a limited number of images up front and reveal the rest on demand, for faster-loading large galleries.
- Lightbox Toolbar: Fullscreen, download, and share/copy-link buttons plus an image counter in the lightbox popup.
- Aspect Ratio Control: Force gallery thumbnails to a square, 4:3, 16:9, 3:2, or 9:16 crop instead of a fixed height.
- Right-Click Protection: Optionally prevent visitors from right-clicking to save gallery images.
- Keyboard & Screen Reader Accessible: Gallery items and the lightbox are fully keyboard-operable, with proper ARIA roles and focus handling.
- Optimized Script Loading: Scripts load only when the block is used, keeping pages fast.
- Translation Ready: Fully compatible with multilingual websites.
Pro Version – Unlock Advanced Gallery Layouts
Image Gallery Block Pro extends the plugin with advanced layouts, enhanced design controls, and interactive gallery experiences.
Pro features include:
- Advanced Gallery Layouts: Masonry, Dynamic Motion, 3D Parallax, and Hexagonal layouts.
- 3D Image Slider Galleries: Engaging 3D sliders with navigation controls.
- Drag-and-Drop Image Sorting: Reorder gallery images with sortable controls.
- Custom Overlay Effects: Stylish hover overlays with adjustable colors, margins, and padding.
- Card Design Customization: Control card borders, radius, widths, and layout appearance.
- Button & Element Positioning: Fine-tune button placement and alignment.
- Global Container Controls: Advanced background, margin, and padding settings.
- Media Highlights Story Albums: Facebook-style story albums that group photos and videos, opening in a full-screen autoplay story viewer.
- Priority Support: Faster assistance and updates.
Try Image Gallery Block Pro – unlock all premium features now!
How to Use Image Gallery Block – Quick Start
- Open any page or post in the WordPress block editor (Gutenberg).
- Click the + (Add Block) button and search for “Image Gallery”.
- Insert the block, then upload or select images from the Media Library.
- Add titles and subtitles, set columns, styling, and enable the lightbox popup from the block settings panel.
- Preview your gallery on different devices, then hit Publish.
Note: If you select a Pro layout (such as Masonry or 3D Parallax) in the free version, a placeholder block appears with a Get Premium button – you can remove it if you choose not to upgrade.
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Use Cases
- Photography Portfolios: Present your best shots in grids, Masonry, or Polaroid styles.
- WooCommerce Product Galleries: Build product showcases and visual collections on shop sites.
- Travel Photo Galleries: Share trip albums with dates, titles, and lightbox viewing.
- Blog Image Galleries: Enrich articles with responsive photo collections.
- Portfolio Showcases: Highlight creative work with hover effects and 3D layouts.
- Visual Storytelling Pages: Combine images, titles, and subtitles to tell a story.
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Source Code
The non-minified source code for this plugin is available on our public repository:
GitHub Repository
Build Process
This plugin uses a build process to generate the production assets (JS/CSS) located in the build/ directory. The human-readable source code is available in the src/ directory.
To build the plugin from source:
1. com/bPlugins/3d-image-gallery-free
2. Install dependencies: npm install
3. Run the build command: npm run build
Build Tools Used: Webpack, Babel, PostCSS, Gulp.
Third-Party Libraries
This plugin uses the following third-party libraries:
bpl-tools
- Source / GitHub: https://github.com/bPlugins/bpl-tools
- License: GPL-2.0-or-later – https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
- Purpose: Shared utility library providing admin dashboard components and common Gutenberg editor controls.
- External Services: The library may connect to bPlugins, WordPress.org, and Freemius services for product data and checkout functionality. See full details: https://github.com/bPlugins/bpl-tools#external-requests–why-they-are-made
As the external service functionality is handled by bpl-tools as a third-party library, the following services are utilized:
bPlugins API
- Service URL: https://api.bplugins.com
- Purpose: The plugin’s admin dashboard fetches product comparison data and pricing information to display relevant upgrade options and feature details.
- Data Sent: Only the plugin slug is transmitted; no personal or site data is collected.
- Terms of Service: https://bplugins.com/terms-of-service/
- Privacy Policy: https://bplugins.com/privacy-policy/
WordPress.org Plugins API
- Service URL: https://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.2/
- Purpose: The admin dashboard queries the official WordPress.org Plugins API to retrieve and display a curated list of other plugins by the same author (“Our Plugins” section).
- Data Sent: Plugin slugs and author name; no personal or site data is collected.
- Terms of Service: https://wordpress.org/about/tos/
- Privacy Policy: https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/
Freemius API
- Service URL: https://api.freemius.com
- Purpose: Handles license activation, premium feature verification, update checks, and opt-in telemetry for both free and pro versions.
- Data Sent: Site URL, admin email, license keys, and version numbers.
- Terms of Service: https://freemius.com/terms/
- Privacy Policy: https://freemius.com/privacy/